A Companion to the Victorian Novel
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“Including sections on literary and cultural contexts, genres (e.g., motion pictures based on specific novels and juvenalia), major authors, and critical approaches, this compendium will be a useful research tool...Baker and Womack's collection is a significant addition to the literature used by upper-division undergraduates through scholars.”–
“A Comparison to the Victorian Novel would be an excellent purchase for undergraduate libraries. In addition to the accessible prose style-nearly all the articles are blissfully free of jargon-the relative brevity of the pieces, most of which run about ten pages, means that each is well within even the most reluctant student's attention limits.”–
Book Description
This reference is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel and its contexts. It examines the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on serialization and syndication; it looks at significant social and cultural contexts surrounding the novel; it discusses various genres, such as ghost stories, the Gothic, and detective fiction; it introduces some of the period's most important novelists; and it surveys different critical approaches and their application to the study of 19th-century fiction.
A Companion to the Victorian Novel
A Companion to the Victorian Novel,William Baker,Kenneth Womack,Greenwood Press,0313314071,19th century,English fiction,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Fiction,Handbooks, manuals, etc,History and criticism,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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